God is
represented to us in His Triune Fullness. The Trinity is a Truth revealed of
Scripture in that God is One in Three separate Persons – Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. The Signature of God in His Triune Head is fully revealed in the State
of Nature. His creative genius is evidenced from the natural wonders we see
about.
For in Six Days
God created the Heavens and the Earth, and on the Seventh Day God rested from
all His labors.
Seven Day Week
Seven shades of
color are in the rainbow. White is the fullness of color, and black is the
total absence thereof. Seven notes of music on the musical scale (the eighth is
the beginning of the next scale).
Three dimensions
of form in all of Nature…Width, Height, Depth.
As any geometry
student will know, a measurement missing any one of these three dimensions is
without substance. It would simply be a plane with infinite height and width,
but no depth – therefore nothing at all.
In explanation
of the Trinity, St. Patrick used the example of the clover plant….one plant
with Three Leaves. Each leaf separate and and apart from the other, but each
leaf sharing a common existence as a clover plant and each deriving nourishment
from the common trunk.
God, through His
beloved Son, Jesus, has revealed Truths to us that we could not understand
without a material manifestation. Jesus spoke with us in parables:
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He used vessels of gold, silver, and earth to
describe different spiritual qualities of people.
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He used the ten virgins to describe those who
are possessed of the Holy Spirit, and those who are not.
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He used the example of Stones Crying out, in the
propagation of His Gospel.
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He spoke of Wells of Water and Springs of Life.
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The Day Star (2 Peter 1:19)
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The Bright and Morning Star (Rev 22:16)
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The Tree of Life
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Snow is used to describe the purity of God’s
Word.
o Job
38 22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou
seen the treasures of the hail,
Ps 51 7 ¶ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow.
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He used the symbols of Bread and Wine to
illustrate and be a memorial to His most Blessed Sacrifice of His own preciuous
Body and Blood.
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Throughout the Bible, God compares His Pure and
cleansing Word to Water.
o John
4:14 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst;but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life.
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Revelation 21:
o 5 And
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said
unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely.7 He
that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my son.
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Revelation 22:1
o 1 ¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was there the tree of
life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every
month: 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you
these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.17 And the Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add
unto him the plagues that are written in this book:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and from the
things which are written in this book.
God has revealed
His nature in the Things that He has made. His nature should be in us. He made
us after His likeness and image.
Genesis 1:26
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
In so many places God has used
Rivers to illustrate His Nature and Being:
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Ps 1 (Like a tree planted by the rivers of waters)
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Ps 24 …leads me beside still (peaceful) waters.
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Prov 21:1 1 ¶ The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it
whithersoever he will.
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Isaiah 41 18 I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of
water, and the dry land springs of water.
There are three worldly rivers
that I would like to compare with the Nature of God:
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The Nile
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The Zayanderud
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The River of Spirit
The Nile River:
Longest in the
world – 4,130 miles in length. Could cross from Washington DC to Los Angeles
and Back Again. Landing at Nairobi Airport in Kenya, ones attention is drawn to
a huge and magnificent mountain to the East and South called Kilamanjaro. This
majestic mountain is the highest point on the great continent of Africa. It
bears the appearance of the Lord’s Table, covered with snow and flat across its
huge peak. The snows there are Eternal – never melting completely away
regardless of the heat of the summers. It feeds it’s the waters of the melting
snows into Lake Victorai which, in turn, feeds into the life-giving waters of
the Mighty Nile.
This River
cascades down the slopes of Africa, thousands of feet down. Across the deserts
and plains of the mighty African Continent to its destination in Egypt. Here,
its waters have become rich in minerals and nutrients that it has collected on
its long voyage. It is so rich and bountiful that it overflows its banks in
Egypt, depositing its treasures on the Fertile Crescent and making this region
the richest in the world.
During the greatest famines, the
Nile is even more bountiful in supplying its wealth to Egypt.
This
characteristic of the Nile River may be compared to the Nature of God. He has
provided the White Manna of Life to us. He hails from on high. He is pure and
White, and His riches are unsearchable.
So the Nile River is illustrative
of the Father.
The second river is one in Persia
called the Zayanderud.
This is a
Persian Word meaning “Giver of Life”. This river also originates in the snows
of the Zagross Range of Mountains to the West of Esfahan, the central city of
Iran. The waters are pure and cold as the flow down the mountain peaks and into
the Valley. They flow through the City of Esfahan providing life and joy to its
residence. On the Eastern Gate of the City, the waters emerge and continue the
journey acrss the barren desert.
When flying
above the desert terrain, one can know exactly where the course of the River
flows, because there is a wide band of green vegetation for 5 or 10 miles
either side of the rivers embankment. The River gives Life everywhere it goes,
and healing to the people. That is exactly what Christ has done for us. The
River continues for about one hunbdred miles from its source and dies in the
desert salts and sands.
Though a very
short River, its impact is immeasurable in its blessings to the people of
Persia. Just like the Life of Christ – rich and bountiful for us. The deadly
waters of the lake into which the rivers flows and dies is called Gav Khuni or
Blood of an Ox. It has the blood re appearance of the blood that Jesus shed on
the cross for us. This River, called Giver of Life, is exactly an illustration
of our Savior Jesus Christ.
The third River of note has no name. Just as the Holy Spirit will
not speak of Himself, so this river is not visible to the eye.
We have read in
the Gospel of St John how the woman came at noon time to the well at Sychar.
This is the same well that Jacob dug and the same city as ancient Shechem. Here
is the tomb of Joseph. The Underground River of Shechem is the River that fed
the waters of that well. The River runs silently and unseen during the lively
hours of barter and commerce. But when the curtain of night falls, and all the
voices of commerce are silenced, and the feet of men and beast are stilled,
then one can listen and hear the gentle gurgling of the waters ofd the river
far beneath the streets of the City.
How like the
Holy Spirit is this Underground River at Schechem.
John 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.16 And I will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you.18 ¶ I will
not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see
me: because I live, ye shall live also.20
At that day ye shall know that I am
in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love
him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 15:26 ¶ But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:27 And ye also shall bear witness,
because ye have been with me from the beginning.
These Words are
biblical science. They help you to discover Truth and Joy. They point to God
and manifest to us His Nature. Keep them in your hearts now and forever.
